Mount Polley: A Wake-Up Call For Canada’s Mining Industry
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. When a tailings pond broke at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in south-central B.C., spilling millions of cubic metres of…
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Mount Polley: A Wake-Up Call For Canada’s Mining Industry
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. When a tailings pond broke at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in south-central B.C., spilling millions of cubic metres of…
Mount Polley: A Wake-Up Call For Canada’s Mining Industry
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. When a tailings pond broke at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in south-central B.C., spilling millions of cubic metres of…
No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Own Opinion
This is guest post by Dr. Patrick Stokes, professor of philosophy at Deakin University. It originally appeared on The Conversation and is republished here with permission. Every year, I try…
No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Own Opinion
This is guest post by Dr. Patrick Stokes, professor of philosophy at Deakin University. It originally appeared on The Conversation and is republished here with permission. Every year, I try…
Not at Home on the Range: Subsidized Fracking Hits Colorado
This is a guest post by Paul Thacker, originally published by Oil Change International. A general contractor in Colorado’s Grand Valley, Duke Cox says the first time he became aware…
The Monckton Files: Threatwatch 1 by Barry Bickmore
This is a guest post by Barry Bickmore, a long-time chronicler of the misdeeds and misdirections of Lord Christopher Monckton. One of the truly amusing facets of being a Monckton-o-phile…
Leaders Must Put People Before Politics: David Suzuki
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. When we elect people to office, we give them power to make and enact decisions on our behalf. They should have a…
Canada Needs Some Serious Climate Honesty
This is a guest post by Mark Jaccard, professor of sustainable energy at Simon Fraser University. In 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government asked me and four other economists if…
Global Warming Deniers Grow More Desperate By The Day
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The Heartland Institute’s recent International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas illustrates climate change deniers’ desperate confusion. As Bloomberg News noted, “Heartland’s…
The Blue Dot Tour: It’s About All Of Us
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. A now-famous 1972 photo of Earth taken by Apollo 17 astronauts from 45,000 kilometres away became known as “the blue marble”. The…
"The West Wants Out" of Ottawa’s Energy Superpower Plan
This is a guest post by Will Horter, executive director of the Dogwood Initiative. It was originally published in the Toronto Star. Earthquakes happen rarely in Canadian politics, but the…
Subsidy Spotlight: Paid to Pollute and Poison
This is a guest post by Paul Thacker, on assignment with Oil Change International. Cross-posted with permission. A wife and mother of two from Venice, Louisiana, Kindra Arnesen says her…
Is B.C.’s LNG Plan Destined to Fail?
This is a guest post by Mark Jaccard, professor of sustainable energy at Simon Fraser University and a convening lead author in the Global Energy Assessment. During B.C.’s 2013 election…
BNSF Nears Shift To One-Member Crews, Possibly Even on Dangerous Oil Trains
This is a guest post by Cole Stangler. For decades, the U.S. railroad industry has successfully shed labor costs by shifting to smaller and smaller operating crews. Now, it’s on…
Richard Tol Dons Cloak of Climate Denial
This is a guest post by Cindy Baxter. They were all there. A veritable octopus of conflicting climate denial arguments, from “it’s not happening” to “satellite data says it’s all…
The Fish Are Fine, Kinder Morgan Says
Ecojustice lawyers were among the many to file motions to the National Energy Board late last week regarding Kinder Morgan’s poor and non-existent responses to questions posed to it by…
Addressing Global Warming is an Economic Necessity
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Those who don’t outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it because…
Addressing Global Warming is an Economic Necessity
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Those who don’t outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it because…
U.S. Gas Export Lobbyists Exploit DC’s Revolving Door
This is a guest post by David Halperin, originally published at Republic Report. Even as President Obama pursues an aggressive new public effort to fight global warming by regulating U.S.…